rising irish actor daryl mccormack plays an aspiring writer who takes up residence at a famous novelistisn't long however before buried secrets begin to emerge. when you said i wasn't the first, what did you mean? what really drew me to playing this character was the fact that i just saw a hungry young man who is walking into a world that he is not fully embodied yet, and i think you just have a great thriller in that he ends up right beside his hero quite quickly. the film talks about how we idolise people as well and how that can be both a good and bad thing. i think the film says quite a lot about the english class system and we were aware of that, the sort of death by one thousand cuts that a dinner table can give you. "have you got the right tie on?" the right music playing?" how we fit into that. it says a lot about creativity, i think. when your creativity is on the wane, how do you prop that up and how do you know that you are toxic? and that is interesting. great writers steal. veteran actor richard e grant plays the pre—eminent novelist, a man obsessed with finishing his lates